The Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature by Thomas Henry Huxley
I take (borrow) the following from this interesting web site that I only today encountered: “Spiritual Insights Quotations and the Faith vs Reason Debate”.
The Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature by Thomas Henry Huxley, published in 1863, was the first book explicitly devoted to the topic of human evolution, and discussed much of the anatomical and other evidence for the evolution of man and apes from a common ancestor.
Something of the nature and direction of Huxley’s work can perhaps be gauged from the fact that it featured the following frontispiece:-
Why is it that today, in the year 2010, nearly 150 years since Thomas Henry Huxley set about to make everyone aware of not the theory, but the fact of evolution, there are still a majority of our fellow citizens who have probably never seen this array of like skeletons, let alone come to grips with what they, the skeletons, are saying about us, all of us?
